[freespirited]

[A college degree] may provide a credential that employers want, not because it represents actual skills, but because it's a weeding tool that doesn't produce civil-rights suits as, say, IQ tests might. A four-year college degree, even if its holder acquired no actual skills, at least indicates some ability to show up on time and perform as instructed

All true, but I submit this matters primarily for your first job. Having a degree from a fancy business school might get you in the door in the business world. But if you dont and you get in some other way, once you show that you can produce, an employer would be very foolish to stay hung up about your educational credentials.

[GOP Poet]

great point.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

The only companies that care about a degree once you’ve been working for a while are typically the huge, unionized companies. And those are the ones that are being nationalized explicitly (GM, Chrysler) or implicitly (via over-regulation).

Obama will require this large companies to ever-up the educational requirements of new hires so as to keep funding the government-educational complex and further entrench liberalism.

Small business? It’s a thing of the past, it’s being eliminated via Obamacare and dozens of other regulations (like the new 1099 requirement starting next year). If Obama and the Slavery Party (democrats) continue on for 3-4 years there will only be large businesses, and you WILL have to get Government loans to go to Government schools so you can be hired by Government companies.

[decimon]

...an employer would be very foolish...

That could sum up my experience with the corporate world.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Years ago I felt that a college degree at least assured that the applicant was literate.
Now, Not so much.

[okie01]

But if you dont and you get in some other way, once you show that you can produce, an employer would be very foolish to stay hung up about your educational credentials.

As one who entered the business world with a Geography degree from a cow college -- and competed with the MBAs from Harvard, Penn and Dartmouth -- I can attest to that.

[org.whodat]

at least indicates some ability to show up on time and perform as instructed

And how many of those took five and six years to get that degree in basket weaving. I at one time may have agreed with the statement, but today given the number of schools that give open books tests and have "Ding Bat" course study, I strongly disagree.